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The Old Man and the Sea (1990)

The movie was better than the book!

WARNING!! This is a spoiler!

I'm a 9th grader and as a class we read and saw the movie The Old Man in the Sea. The old man never gives up so you have to be ready to go in his adventures in fishing. His adventures are not that interesting but he never gave up. He knew that some day he was going to catch a fish. The book was not interesting but the movie was interesting. In the movie the old man promises his wife that he was always going to go fishing on his skiff. If you watched the movie you will see that he never breaks his promise. It looked like that old man was real in love with his wife and was willing to do anything to stay with her. But, we still don't know what happened with her we don't know if she died or if she still alive. In the book the old man doesn't have a daughter and in the movies he does. His daughter was always trying to get him to live with her but he never wanted to. The old man needs a woman in his life because the old man looks to dirty. Even though he thinks that he can make it like that I don't think he can. The old man is sick he needs someone to take care of him. Even though he knows that he sick he still refuses to move with his daughter. The old man had a little friend named Manolin that was always there for him. The little boy is like 10 years old in the movie but he is real helpful to the old man. The old man and the little boy were fans of the Yankees and that never changed. Their favorite player was DiMaggio. He was a great player back in the day. They both had faith in the Yankees they knew that the Yankees wasn't going to let them down. At the end the old man catches a fish reaching his goal. He was trying to catch a fish for over 84 days and he never gave up. The old man reached his goal without a problem. While he was out there getting a fish people thought that he was dead or something had happened to him. He was thinking about the day he got married with his wife. The old man never broke his promise and that's what I really like about him in the story. Most of the guys in the book that never talked to him would have given up but he didn't. He kept going until he reached his goal and most men wouldn't be able to do what he did. If you want to know more I suggest you watch the movie because it's better than the book.